UNLICENSED RADIO MAN GO EXTRA DISTANCE (DORCHSETER REPORTER) TOUCH FM

[aaronread]

Christ, why does everyone respond whenever LAUROJRM or RAPKING baits you all. Do you LIKE feeding the trolls or something?

 

[Watt]

If we pitch in and buy you a copy of FOREVER FREESTYLE will you go away?

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[trock]

WoW this is sad. What's wrong with people wanting to hear the music they like on the radio. Not everybody can afford internet or an ipod man. Maybe if it was Rock or talk formats u know something u guys care about. You wouldn't be so smugg in the way you are reacting to this. As far as pirates go. I dont agree with them either. They are breaking the law. But if I was sitting in my corporate office and seen all these pirates popping up. Pirates essentially doing the same format. I'll be seeing $$ signs.

 

[kms575]

Maybe you guys should move to London. There are more pirates there than the Somali coastline

 

[mistermicrophone]

WoW this is sad. What's wrong with people wanting to hear the music they like on the radio. Not everybody can afford internet or an ipod man. Maybe if it was Rock or talk formats u know something u guys care about. You wouldn't be so smugg in the way you are reacting to this. As far as pirates go. I dont agree with them either. They are breaking the law. But if I was sitting in my corporate office and seen all these pirates popping up. Pirates essentially doing the same format. I'll be seeing $$ signs.

Wow, generalizing is sad. Some of us actually work in this industry and don't want to see pirates adversley effect us...so, regardless of format, we'd be just as upset. But nice try...

 

[ffreauxdziak]

Perhaps if those who post supporting pirate radio could author a coherent sentence and type according to accepted standards, we could engage in a genuine policy debate.

 

[raccoonradio]

Agreed, and poetic justice would be if someone set up a pirate (not that it's legal, but...) NEXT to a pirate to annoy them! Have it run "Talk Like A Pirate Day" non-stop. But it's serving the community!

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Agreed, and poetic justice would be if someone set up a pirate (not that it's legal, but...) NEXT to a pirate to annoy them!

Check out the extended end of the AM band (1620-1710) near or within urban Boston. There are a number of small pirates up there that we don't usually notice because they aren't interfering with any legitimate local stations, and their signals and/or audio quality are mostly terrible, but there are sometimes pig-piles of them on the same and/or adjacent frequencies interfering with each other.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

I work at a small CHR POp station, but we are owned by a small company... We dont snitch to the FCC about Pirates unless they set up on an adjacent frequency or our frequency and cause interference... What kinda thrill do you guys get by snitching to the FCC,, do you get some kind of sick high out of it.... The only good radio left anywhere is either Internet Only,,,,, Pirate,,,, or owned by a very small Corp.... The rest is all voice tracked from other states that have never been to the city they are heard on...Seacrest Anyone????

Why would you guys want to cause this guy harm for serving his community... I have listened to tons of pirate stations, including the huge amount of Dance-Electronica,,, and reggea pirates in london UK, and the dance Pirates in Dublin Ireland,,,, all of which serve an audience that Commercial radio does not.... and none have never heard mentions of drug use or selling drugs,,, they dont even Curse on air, and if a record is played that they didnt releaze had swear words in it, they normally pull the record off and appologize to the public for the mistake.... these guys get all the crap, while the real violent criminals run free... Chances are the FCC knows where Touch FM is,,, but they have to have probable cause and organize a raid and have a US marshal present.. This costs money,, so if they dont see a pirate as a threat, they dont mess with them except the cockey ones that Curse on air, play indecent material,,, Purposely interfere with licensed stations,,, those stations are the ones that get raided often in a few days or weeks.... Not the ones that try to be profesional.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

One more thing,,, I dont this should be about Race and Color, as I dont see Race and Color, just a human being... But one format... the dance music format,, while not popular with big adverts has a good following here with Whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians,,, you name it,, and their are tons of different styles of dance music, it shouldnt be lumped into one genre,,, thats like lumping Urban hip Hop,, Urban AC,,, Black Talk, and Black Gospel into one format,, which some governent people do,,, the same as lumpinf Alternative Rock, Active Rock, Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Lite Rock,,, all into one genre.... Many markets could support even a couple of Dance Formatted stations, like in Chicago, they could easily support both a Euro-Trance type station,,, plus a House station,,, and possibly even an underground progressive,, Minimal ETC format,, and maybe even a Hard dance format,,, but no companys will try it, and none of us that beleive in it have the money to by a big signal in a place like Chicago, detroit, NYC, LA,,, ECT.. and even if we had the millions,, the big corps have the right to mach any price when their Lease runs out,, so that leaves all the little guys out..... NON COm School stations are good,,, but usually wont let anyone take over 24/7 with a Niche Format...... Not all of us want Soft AC and Sports talk and Religious stations,,, not to mention all the good LPFM frequencys that got snatched up by Churches or out of market stations for Translators.

 

[tomservo]

Two questions:

1) How can any semi-competent radio company NOT make money on urban AC in a city like Boston? Surely there are enough people in that size of a market, with the diverse demographics necessary, to make that type of station profitable!

2) How on earth is it the FCC hasn't shut this station down yet, as public as they've made themselves to be? Maybe they're not harming anyone and maybe they're working in the community's interest (if not big broadcasting) but last time I checked the FCC had the authority and responsibility to enforce the rules regardless of who complains to them. The fact that the station isn't in the FCC database alone should be enough to warrant action.

I can see this from both sides, from big radio and the small broadcaster… If the FCC is leaving them alone for basically being well-kept and not causing undue interference, isn't that setting a precedent that could be used by other pirates in other areas in future dates?

Since the flip of local a Jack-FM clone, maybe it's time someone here started playing classic rock on a pirate station. It's not available anywhere else! (And who ever thought a format like classic rock would not be heard on the airwaves in ANY market in the US?)

 

[Eli Polonsky]

2) How on earth is it the FCC hasn't shut this station down yet, as public as they've made themselves to be? Maybe they're not harming anyone and maybe they're working in the community's interest (if not big broadcasting) but last time I checked the FCC had the authority and responsibility to enforce the rules regardless of who complains to them. The fact that the station isn't in the FCC database alone should be enough to warrant action.

I believe they've been fined... not that it does anything.

Since the flip of local a Jack-FM clone, maybe it's time someone here started playing classic rock on a pirate station. It's not available anywhere else! (And who ever thought a format like classic rock would not be heard on the airwaves in ANY market in the US?)

Are you posting from the Boston area? WZLX is still Classic Rock in Boston, and there are a number of other stations here that include classic rock tracks within other formats.

 

[trock]

WoW this is sad. What's wrong with people wanting to hear the music they like on the radio. Not everybody can afford internet or an ipod man. Maybe if it was Rock or talk formats u know something u guys care about. You wouldn't be so smugg in the way you are reacting to this. As far as pirates go. I dont agree with them either. They are breaking the law. But if I was sitting in my corporate office and seen all these pirates popping up. Pirates essentially doing the same format. I'll be seeing $$ signs.

Wow, generalizing is sad. Some of us actually work in this industry and don't want to see pirates adversley effect us...so, regardless of format, we'd be just as upset. But nice try...

Apparently I just hit it on the nose. Because you obviously don't understand anything i wrote. It's not about the pirates. It's about u guys so worried about the bottom line and your jobs that u don't take any risks. Who cares if it might actually work. Lets just program another rock station get that 1.9 or 2.0 and blame it on the 5 other rock stations we're competing against. Where as if we do something innovative like a dance rhythmic or god forbid an urban with very little competition and you fail like radio one did. Then u have some explaining to do. Radio one by the way was fiscally in trouble and had to sell. My point is Boston is and always will be a bottom line market.

 

[tomservo]

Are you posting from the Boston area? WZLX is still Classic Rock in Boston, and there are a number of other stations here that include classic rock tracks within other formats.

Nope, I'm snooping in from central Mississippi, which has no shortage of urban stations of a variety of flavors.

 

[mistermicrophone]

Apparently I just hit it on the nose. Because you obviously don't understand anything i wrote. It's not about the pirates. It's about u guys so worried about the bottom line and your jobs that u don't take any risks. Who cares if it might actually work. Lets just program another rock station get that 1.9 or 2.0 and blame it on the 5 other rock stations we're competing against. Where as if we do something innovative like a dance rhythmic or god forbid an urban with very little competition and you fail like radio one did. Then u have some explaining to do. Radio one by the way was fiscally in trouble and had to sell. My point is Boston is and always will be a bottom line market.

No, I understood what you said, and this cute little version is NOT what you said the first time. As for Boston being a bottom line market...uhhh...what market ISN'T? How many companies do you know that own commercial stations, regardless of market size, say "hey, eff turning a profit, let's program (fill in the format)"? I would say NONE.